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Recently, a video of Bharatnatyam dancer and actress Sudha Chandran’s Mata Ki Chowki ceremony at her home went viral on social media. In this video, Sudha was seen dancing on Devi Bhajans. She was so immersed in devotion that people had to control her. Many people described it as a trance-like situation. As soon as the bhajan reaches its peak, Sudha becomes very emotional, her body goes out of control, she starts jumping on the floor and the people around have to control her.
Seeing this behavior of Sudha Chandran, many devotees described this moment as “the arrival of Mata Rani”, which led to a lot of discussion on social media. While talking on the viral video, Sudha Chandran openly expressed her side in Paras Chhabra’s podcast Abra Ka Dabra. He said, “I don’t know whether Mata comes or not, but she definitely gives blessings.”
Paras Chhabra asked, “Your video is going viral these days. Mata ki Chowki wala. Does Mata come to you?” Sudha Chandran replied lovingly, “This is a big thing. I don’t know whether mother comes or not, but mother definitely comes and blesses me.” He told that Pandit ji was in the post. Pandit ji told them that that day she had drank 4 liters of water in 10 minutes. There was a different kind of energy in him.
Apart from this, Sudha Chandran also talked about her career. Sudha told the importance of her first film ‘Mayuri’. She said, “I started my journey with Mayuri. It was a Telugu film. If we talk about biopics today, the first biopics were ‘Mayuri’ and ‘Nache Mayuri’. In the rest of the biopics someone else plays the character, but this was the first film in which the story was mine and I was the heroine.”
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Sudha Chandra told, “At a very young age, due to family responsibilities, my father came to Mumbai from there. He used to work as a typist in the house of a very big dancer. He thought that if I get married and have a daughter, I will make her a dancer. I will name her Sudha Ram, because the name of the dancer where he worked was Sudha Doraiswamy. One day I told my grandfather, you talk about Murugan every day. I also want to meet this God. We The bus left and after just 10 kilometers the two buses collided head-on.
Sudha Chandran further said, “…after 4-5 days, I suffered a slight fracture. I don’t know what they did. There was a slight cut on my right ankle. They put stitches, applied plaster of Paris or I don’t know what. Tried a lot for 15 days. By then gangrene had set in. It was a matter of life and death. Then my leg had to be amputated. And the big question was – what will a dancer do without a leg?”
Three years after her leg was amputated, Sudha gave a 3.5-hour performance with an artificial leg. Due to fear, she wanted only family members to be present, but the auditorium was packed. He said, “As soon as the curtain opened, there were 1000 people in the auditorium, the entire hall was full. I took a step forward.”
Sudha Chandran said, “My grandmother was sitting and said, ‘I had prayed to Lord Murugan. If he is really our family deity, he will appear to me in some form or the other.’ As soon as the performance started, a Brahmin came into the auditorium. Only one seat was vacant. He came and sat near Appa. He said, give this camphor to your daughter after the show. When I opened his wallet, there was a picture of Lord Murugan in it.”
The actress also spoke emotionally about her father’s last days. She told, “I was sitting outside the ICU. Suddenly I saw a peacock. As soon as I saw the peacock, I said, the news will come in 10 minutes. Within 5 minutes, the doctor said, they are going. I said, I know. They have come to take them. Within 5 minutes, Papa passed away.”